Global Windows Shortcuts

Win+1, 2, 3, 4, etc. will launch each program in your taskbar. It is helpful then to keep your most used programs at the beginning of your task bar so you can open them one right after another. This also works in Windows Vista for the quick launch icons.

Win+Alt+1, 2, 3, etc. will open the jump list for each program in the taskbar. You can then use your arrows to select which jump list option you want to open.

Win+T will cycle through taskbar programs. This is similar to just hovering over the item with your mouse but you can launch the program with Space or Enter.

Shift+F10 opens the contextual or “right click” menu for a file/folder. This can be very handy for speed especially if you know which option you want to select. Look for an underlined letter in each option to know which letter you can press for faster access.

Shift+Del deletes a file without sending it to the recycle bin because who wants to empty their recycle bin anyway?

Ctrl+Shift+N creates a new folder in your current directory.

Alt+Enter opens the file properties so you can view file size, sharing settings, and creation date.

F2 renames a file or folder.

F3 will open explorer and select the search bar. If you already have an explorer window open it will highlight the search bar. In some programs it will also open the search dialog to search within that program.

F6 cycles objects in the current window. In explorer this will cycle between the location bar, options bar, left pane, and right pane. It also works with varying success in other programs.

Don’t forget about Shift+Tab which does the opposite of the Tab action (can it be called next item ?) and
when copying multiple files and you get the “Overwrite” dialog Holding the Shift button while clicking “No” will make it “No to All”.

The only thing I didn’t know was the Shift+F10, it could have saved me a lot of hassle.
Thanks !

wow, I knew about Ctrl+Shift+Esc and do that second nature, but I had no idea about Ctrl+Shift+N, that would have saved me so much time all these years having to right-click to create new folders. It was especially awful when I would have to create 10 or so subfolders…

Win + Left : move application to left 50% of your screen.*
Win + Right : move application to right 50% of your screen.*

* When pressed again it will usually move it to the other side. And again it will move back to the middle. This works brilliantly with multiple monitors as the window moves across the screen. It is a lifesaver also if a window is off screen.

With my Dell 1464 Inspiron laptop, the following keyboard shortcuts do not seem to work:
Win up/Win down
Win home
Alt Pause/Break (this one is because I don’t have a Pause/Break key)

Am I doing something wrong? I.e., when you say up and down, do you mean the PgDn or PgUp keys instead of the up and down arrow keys?
The other hints are great — especially Win 1-0 to access the programs in the task bar.

Has anyone found a way to toggle the Navigation Pane in Windows 7 > Explorer? I use 64-bit and have been unable to find any way (short of the normal way, with about 3 clicks on the menus.) I have also been unsuccessful creating an Autohotkey script to do this (even with AutoScriptWriter)

Win+D minimizes all applications. Useful if you want to start an application from your desktop without minimizing all windows manually.
Press Win+D a second time and all windows will show up again, in the exact position they were before.

In a dual monitor setup with Windows 7:
win+shift+left or win+shift+right will send the current window to the other monitor. Note, if the window is in full screen mode e.g. VLC running in full screen mode, you may need to hit the shortcut twice.

hi pals! try the below shortcut it is interesting
win+d it will set back to desktop
thank u all I’ve learned some useful shortcut to impress my friends
my most favorite is WIN + PAUSE|BREAK
thank u have a nice time

Perhaps you can explain to me the HOME-Key. I have absolutely no idea where to find it on the keyboard.

Shift + F10 isn’t it the context-menu (right-click, or the key for it between [alt gr] and [strg])?

BTW, I think the strg – fn – win – alt – buttons on the lower left simply displaced. The fn-button has no use for the combinations which are around it. It simply disturbes there. If you quickly move your fingers to reach the different combinations you always hit the fn-button instead of the strg or the win-button.

On my system the win + 1,2 etc. or alt+win+1, etc does not work with the right side number pad. Using the numbers at the top of the keyboard is an awkward hand over hand motion which is cumbersome. Is they a fix for this?

Well if you don’t have a pause/break button on the keyboard and they are separate its actually the “pause” button you have to press along with the “Windows” key. But being that my keyboard is configured with the “pg up” and “pause” buttons together, I have to press Win + Fn + Pg Up/Pause keys all together to get system properties to open.

WINDOWS+M minimizes everything but seems a bit redundant as Show Destop shorcut does that too?
I only use WIN+D to do that as it all comes back up again when you do the command a 2nd time.
WIN+E is great as mentioned :p
WIN+F opens Find (Search)
I use WIN+Pause/Break a lot too to check CPU/Ram quickly or to get to Device Manager and other system settings too.

For those of you saying your shortcuts don’t work – if you are using a laptop you may need to press the Fn key as well as your numberpad or pause break keys as they are usually a 2nd function on those keys.

Right SHIFT for eight seconds (Switch Filter Keys either on or off)
Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (Switch High Contrast either on or off)
Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUN LOCK (Switch the Mouse Keys either on or off)
SHIFT five times (Switch the Sticky Keys either on or off)
NUM LOCK for five seconds (Switch the Toggle Keys either on or off)
Windows Logo +U (Open Utility Manager)

Hold SHIFT while right-clicking a file or folder and you’ll get an expanded context menu including ‘Open in a new process’ and ‘Open command window here’ as well as a few other options. It can come in handy at times :)

Is there anyway my husband could have hit buttons at the same time my screen is black all the lights come on computer sounds like it is running could you send me the 500 shortcuts and do we have any answers?

(and “f” is a poor symbol to use on computers and net,
it is often used to say f you and i dont think i like having this
angry thought in my mind, sure can be used fondly, but mostly is anger)

and easily see which f:1,2,3… speeds up my job

this forum (geek) ought be offered for sale (and or rent),

not all but parts,

to google

who could trim it down to bite size and post those on its sites, all,

and see what comes,,,,,

they(goog) too have prob of efficiency, but geek
has efficiency beat (except loads the page with more than one quickie)
for max speed, a page or a link should contain one item, thus
reader glances, gets the point, etc, without a headache

last night our pc wents nutso, would continuously type a letter, number,
etc, and we could not control the damn thing in any way,,,, finally we put Norton to work, it did its job and we got to use the computer for awhile,
it had found one unacceptable cookie and deleted it,,,,,,
then we shut it down for the noc,,,,,,

this morn fired it up and had the same problems, ggggrrrrrrrrrrr

so the boss, my wife, tele her favorite and only son, the engineer,
a whiz at all things complicated, whose first question was “were you
eating near the keyboard, etc, and of course i had been eating a square, small,
of chocolate and somehow sneezed some of it in liquid form onto the lower keys i thought only on v and immediate keys, so i cleaned them up, got going
but as i said the gods controlled the computer and we did not

so the boss tele her son, the engineer, again and he said which keys are
typed continuously??? she said ‘5’, he said look at that key on keyboard
and see if juiced with chocolate, and sure enough it was buried, at bottom
of stroke, in chocolate, gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

the boss went downstairs and got an almost new keyboard that we retired
when got this new Acer pc from costco, a dandy pc, does everything
but be nice to choc coated keys, put the almost new keyboard back into
the system and guess what? yep end of problems ggggrrrr all the fun is gone

i know none of geek readers do fancy stuff like i do such as
coat 5 and surrounding keys with chocolate and spit enough so
jam the 5 down full so commands the computer to type 555555555555
5555555555555555555555555555555 all the time